
Author: Nguyen Huu Tuc, Vietnam National University Hanoi As soon as he took office in 2017, former US president Donald Trump adopted the Free and Open Indo-Pacific (FOIP) strategy to maintain US...
Author: Alexander R Arifianto, RSIS As Indonesia slowly inches toward the 2024 general election, preparations for the legislative framework that will serve as the electoral rules are now underway...
Author: Paul Schuler, University of Arizona Commentary on the Communist Party of Vietnam’s 13th Party Congress has mostly focussed on General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong’s selection for a thir...
Author: Alexander L Vuving, APCSS Events over the past year have brought major long-term trends in Vietnam’s domestic and foreign policy to the surface. The country will be less aligned with Ch...
Author: Björn Dressel, ANU On 19 February 2021, Malaysia’s Federal Court found respected news outlet Malaysiakini guilty of contempt of court for five comments by readers deemed critical of th...
Author: Hung Nguyen, George Mason University The 13th National Congress of the Communist Party of Vietnam (CPV) concluded on 1 February in Hanoi. Four notable developments emerged that will play ...
Author: Vasily Kashin, Higher School of Economics During the annual meeting of the Valdai Discussion Club in October 2019, Russian President Vladimir Putin announced that Russia and China are coo...
Authors: Hien Do Benoit, CNAM and David Camroux, Sciences Po ‘Di bat bien, ung van bien’ — a phrase evoked by Ho Chi Minh in 1946 — is the Vietnamese rendering of a Chinese maxim which ma...
Author: Brendan Clift, University of Melbourne The recent round-up and arrest of 53 pro-democracy activists in China’s nominally-autonomous, semi-democratic Hong Kong Special Administrative Reg...
Author: Yuki Tatsumi, Stimson Center Japan’s 2021 defence budget is set to be its largest ever, continuing a near decade-long trend set in motion by former prime minister Shinzo Abe. Under Abeâ...